Ion Besoiu

Ion Besoiu

He was born in Sibiu in 1931 and graduated the city's Theater and Music Academy. After making his debut in 1957, he played for 16 years at the Radu Stanca National Theatre in Sibiu. He then moved to Bucharest, where he played at the Bulandra Theatre. He later served for 12 years as director of this well-known theatre.

  • Title: Ion Besoiu
  • Popularity: 2.917
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1931-03-11
  • Place of Birth: Sibiu, Romania
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  • Also Known As: Ион Бесою
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Ion Besoiu Movies

  • 1971
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    Michael the Brave

    Michael the Brave

    7.3 1971 HD

    An epic fresco depicting the reign (1593-1601) of Mihai Pătrașcu (better known as "Mihai Viteazul" / "Michael the Brave"), the famous prince who...

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  • 1991
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    Subspecies

    Subspecies

    5.358 1991 HD

    Three students get caught in the struggle between a good vampire and his evil brother in the Transylvanian mountains.

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  • 2009
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    Ashes and Blood

    Ashes and Blood

    6.7 2009 HD

    Exiled from her country since her husband's murder ten years earlier, Judith lives in Marseille with her three children. After having refused to see...

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  • 1980
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    Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love

    Ion: The Lust for the Land, the Lust for Love

    8.4 1980 HD

    Jon, a young peasant love more "the land" than his engaged girlhood, Florica.Just when Ion thinks he has become master of his own land, he realizes...

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  • 2011
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    Loverboy

    Loverboy

    6 2011 HD

    Luca (20) seduces girls then leaves them in the hands of his friends at the Black Sea port of Constanta. Luca falls in love with Veli, one of his...

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  • 1974
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    The Immortals

    The Immortals

    7.7 1974 HD

    It's the story of a few men that wonder across Europe trying to come home and rebuild what Mihai Viteazul called "Romanian dream".

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  • 1974
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    A Police Inspector Calls

    A Police Inspector Calls

    8.4 1974 HD

    The Iron Guard, also known as Legion of Archangel Michael, was a Romanian nationalist and patriotic movement of extreme right; as such, after it rose...

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  • 1973
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    The Last Bullet

    The Last Bullet

    8.2 1973 HD

    A continuation of a story started in the drama "With Clean Hands" (1972).

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  • 1978
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    Revenge

    Revenge

    8.2 1978 HD

    "Revansa" (Revenge) appeared not so long after the preview movie of the series, "Un comisar acuza" (The Police Inspector Calls). In this sequel we...

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  • 1972
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    Then I Sentenced Them All to Death

    Then I Sentenced Them All to Death

    7.1 1972 HD

    A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot,...

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  • 1971
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    Brigade Miscellaneous on Alert

    Brigade Miscellaneous on Alert

    7.6 1971 HD

    The adventures of three Romanian inept petty criminals during the 1970s.

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  • 1987
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    François Villon: The Maverick Poet

    François Villon: The Maverick Poet

    5 1987 HD

    The film is a novelized biography of François Villon (1431-1463), known as the Wandering Poet, who led a troubled life due to the fact that he...

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  • 1989
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    Proud Heritage

    Proud Heritage

    7 1989 HD

    After 1394 King Mircea the Elder, ruler of Wallachia, ponders the eventual consequences of a military alliance with the Poles versus one with the...

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  • 2015
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    Bucharest Non-Stop

    Bucharest Non-Stop

    7.2 2015 HD

    "Bucharest Non-Stop" is a feature film that tells the story of a neighborhood of Bucharest. More specifically, the film is a night of non-stop life...

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  • 1980
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    Last Night of Love

    Last Night of Love

    5.7 1980 HD

    In 1916, shortly before Romania's entry in World War One Romanian Army Lieutenant Tudor Gheorghiu is posted to a border patrol unit on Romania's...

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  • 1979
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    Michael, the Dog That Sang

    Michael, the Dog That Sang

    7 1979 HD

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  • 1988
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    Jacob

    Jacob

    6.8 1988 HD

    Jacob (Dorel Visan) is a gold miner who risks his life daily to support his wife, mother-in-law, and four children in this socio-political drama....

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  • 1994
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    Fed Up

    Fed Up

    5.4 1994 HD

    Young Doina has a car accident. In intensive care, the doctor, Vali, calls her time of death but discovers that the child she was carrying is still...

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  • 1978
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    Astray

    Astray

    6.6 1978 HD

    In the communist Romania of Nicolae Ceausescu, a young Romanian woman marries a German citizen just to leave the country.

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  • 1966
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    The Uprising

    The Uprising

    6.8 1966 HD

    After years of deplorable conditions of poverty and injustice, peasants revolt against the landowners, the social elite, and police in this routine...

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  • 1983
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    The Mysteries of Bucharest

    The Mysteries of Bucharest

    7 1983 HD

    The Principality of Wallachia with the capital Bucharest (today a region of Romania) before the Revolution of the year 1848. A couple of secret...

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  • 1985
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    The Silver Mask

    The Silver Mask

    7.7 1985 HD

    Margelatu has to clear his name.

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  • 1994
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    Mirror

    Mirror

    6.4 1994 HD

    Depicts Romania during World War II, focusing on the Royal Coup that toppled Ion Antonescu, the Axis-allied Conducător and authoritarian Prime...

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  • 1980
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    Poor Ioanide

    Poor Ioanide

    7 1980 HD

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  • 1972
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    Bariera

    Bariera

    7 1972 HD

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  • 2014
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    White Gate

    White Gate

    7.2 2014 HD

    Two young men are sent to a labour camp when they try to escape Romania.

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  • 1973
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    Ciprian Porumbescu

    Ciprian Porumbescu

    7.2 1973 HD

    This film envisions the patriotic and tragic life of Romanian composer Ciprian Porumbescu.

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  • 1963
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    Tudor

    Tudor

    7 1963 HD

    Tudor Vladimirescu fights against the Ottoman Turkish domination of Romania and the social agitation ,his story includes the war between Russia and...

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  • 1966
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    The Outlaws

    The Outlaws

    7.7 1966 HD

    First of 2 films set during the 18th century in the mountains of Wallachia, about a band of outlaws aiming to undermine the rule of the Phanariots...

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  • 1965
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    Camera alba

    Camera alba

    6 1965 HD

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  • 1965
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    The Soimaresti Clan

    The Soimaresti Clan

    7.8 1965 HD

    Vying for Principality of Moldavia's throne the descendants of Prince Stephen the Great start a bloody civil war in 1612.

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  • 1967
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    The Dacians

    The Dacians

    7.5 1967 HD

    The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son,...

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  • 1960
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    The Thirst

    The Thirst

    6.4 1960 HD

    The communists are taking over the boyar land and do the agrarian reform.

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  • 1983
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    Forest Fruit

    Forest Fruit

    5.8 1983 HD

    The 17-year-old Amalia, the daughter of a widower lumberjack with many children, falls in love with a soldier. An irresponsible young man, the...

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  • 1981
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    Crew for Singapore

    Crew for Singapore

    7 1981 HD

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  • 1966
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    Calea Victoriei sau cheia visurilor

    Calea Victoriei sau cheia visurilor

    7.3 1966 HD

    Attorney Constantin Lipan (Geo Barton) is tasked to investigate the case of an oil magnate, Iordan Hagi-Iordan (George Calboreanu). This will put...

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  • 1980
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    The Bone Srewn Road

    The Bone Srewn Road

    7.3 1980 HD

    Margelatu, the feared criminal helps the Romanian resistance to fight the dictatorial authorities.

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  • 1986
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    The Turquoise Necklace

    The Turquoise Necklace

    7.7 1986 HD

    5th movie in the "Margelatu" series

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  • 1988
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    Lilac Blossoms for the Second Time

    Lilac Blossoms for the Second Time

    6 1988 HD

    Dana, a young teacher, loses her husband in a car accident. Her four year old son misses a father a lot. Dragoș appears in their lives to fill the...

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  • 1970
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    The Castle of the Condemned

    The Castle of the Condemned

    6.7 1970 HD

    After the Nazi troops retreat from Czechoslovakia, some troops are left behind and choose to fight to death holding a castle instead of surrendering...

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  • 1975
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    The Actor and the Savages

    The Actor and the Savages

    8.1 1975 HD

    Toma Caragiu plays Costica Caratase character inspired by the personality of the great actor Constantin Tanase. The action takes place in the...

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  • 1975
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    The Romanian Musketeer

    The Romanian Musketeer

    5.5 1975 HD

    During the 18th century when Moldavian Prince Dimitrie Cantemir writes The History of the Rise and Fall of the Ottoman Empire the manuscript is...

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  • 1974
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    Păcală

    Păcală

    7.8 1974 HD

    Pacala is an important hero in Romanian popular tradition. He is always making fun of everything wrong with the human behaviour such as stupidity,...

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  • 1982
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    Mercenaries' Trap

    Mercenaries' Trap

    7.3 1982 HD

    The movie is based on a true story from the end of WWI, in Transylvania. A nobleman who owned some land in Transylvania returns home to find a part...

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  • 1985
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    The Last Assault

    The Last Assault

    7.4 1985 HD

    The film tells about the period when Romania joined the Allies against the Axis in WW2.

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  • 1987
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    Secretul lui Nemesis

    Secretul lui Nemesis

    7.3 1987 HD

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  • 1987
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    Everything is Paid

    Everything is Paid

    7 1987 HD

    Sixth "Margelatu" movie

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  • 1981
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    The Duel

    The Duel

    8.1 1981 HD

    Officer Moldovan must solve the case of a robbery. Credit Central Bank was robbed fast and hard by a gang of professionals. Moldovan is trying to...

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  • 1985
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    The Recruitment

    The Recruitment

    5.8 1985 HD

    Lured by a delusional offer, a young geologist ravels abroad where he falls in the tentacles of an economic spying multinational, that forces him to...

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  • 1978
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    The Cyanide and the Raindrop

    The Cyanide and the Raindrop

    6.7 1978 HD

    Investigation into the death of a modest cashier.

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  • 1972
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    The Power and The Truth

    The Power and The Truth

    8 1972 HD

    This is a communist propaganda movie that follows the life of an engineer who is in conflict with power hungry apparatchiks.

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  • 1973
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    The Snowstorm

    The Snowstorm

    2 1973 HD

    The struggle to convince the peasants to join the collective farm in Romania 60s.

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  • 1971
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    The Brothers

    The Brothers

    7 1971 HD

    Family conflicts in the times of communist collectivization.

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  • 1964
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    Merriment Ward

    Merriment Ward

    5 1964 HD

    How a worker family living in a worker neighborhood of between wars Bucharest come involved with the communist movement.

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  • 1960
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    The Storm

    The Storm

    6 1960 HD

    The Nazi troops are retreating from Romania. On a wester town, they have to be held back until some strategic trains can leave the train station.

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  • 1978
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    Doctor Poenaru

    Doctor Poenaru

    7 1978 HD

    In 1919, young Doctor Poenaru is sent to be the director at a country hospital. On his way there he meets a formar army comrade, now a lawyer. An...

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  • 1982
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    Mad Forest

    Mad Forest

    5.5 1982 HD

    A young communist returns to a small provincial town.

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  • 1963
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    Your Part of the Blame

    Your Part of the Blame

    7.3 1963 HD

    This movie follows the story of a young man - Mihai Brad, who works for a industrial plant. He reaches a turning point in his life when his bosses...

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  • 1981
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    Blackmail

    Blackmail

    7 1981 HD

    A gang falsifies college degrees and sells them. They also help their careers, so that later they can blackmail them to obtain industrial espionage.

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  • 1983
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    Dangerous Turn

    Dangerous Turn

    7.3 1983 HD

    A medic is hunted by guilt of killing a man in a car accident, a cop who staged an experiment of placing a dummy on the side of the road and a dead...

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  • 1966
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    Chess to the King

    Chess to the King

    5 1966 HD

    When he tries to arrest a suspect, a police captain find him dead. Investigation will uncover a counterfeiting ring.

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  • 1977
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    Shootings Under the Moonlight

    Shootings Under the Moonlight

    7 1977 HD

    During 1947 Romania's Communist Security Forces hunt down the last anti-Communist resistance fighters in the remote mountain villages of Transylvania.

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  • 1971
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    Asediul

    Asediul

    4.8 1971 HD

    A communist prefect saves the day, saves the night, saves the building and the people. A communist prefect saves the day, saves the night, saves the...

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  • 1981
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    The Convoy

    The Convoy

    5.7 1981 HD

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  • 1980
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    At the Crossroads of Great Storms

    At the Crossroads of Great Storms

    6.3 1980 HD

    In 1848 during the tumultuous era of European revolutions shaking the continent out of its feudal-based empire-based system the Wallachian politician...

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  • 1974
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    Strange Agent

    Strange Agent

    5 1974 HD

    This is a thriller based on a theatre play by Horia Lovinescu - „Omul care şi-a pierdut omenia” (The Man Who Lost His Humanity)

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  • 1971
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    Amongst the Green Hills

    Amongst the Green Hills

    6.3 1971 HD

    Here the author makes a movie after his own novel. Following 3 murders, the investigations will have some unexpected turns.

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  • 1973
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    Captain's Ion Arrow

    Captain's Ion Arrow

    7.5 1973 HD

    In 1462 the Ottoman Turks displeased with Wallachian Prince Vlad the Impaler plot to overthrow and replace him with puppet ruler Prince Radu the...

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  • 1957
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    Eagle 101

    Eagle 101

    6 1957 HD

    A love story sprinkled with spies. A young hero pilot is vulnerable in front of foreign agents due to his love. Based on the novel "Zbor de noapte"...

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  • 1982
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    Mult mai de preț e iubirea

    Mult mai de preț e iubirea

    5.875 1982 HD

    A young girl, who keeps trying unsuccessfully to get into college, wins a large sum at the Lottery. She goes to Bucharest, to find herself.

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  • 1984
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    Horea

    Horea

    7.2 1984 HD

    Cinematic evocation of the Horea, Cloşca and Crişan.

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  • 1983
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    Căruța cu mere

    Căruța cu mere

    5 1983 HD

    Romania in the year 1947: two years after the end of the second World War, the King (Mihai of Hohenzollern and Romania) has to leave the country, the...

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  • 1985
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    I Hope to See You Again

    I Hope to See You Again

    4 1985 HD

    A young engineer which settled in Bucharest after his studies, returns to his village to spend his sick leave. He takes on a project to moderniza an...

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  • 1975
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    Cantemir

    Cantemir

    6 1975 HD

    Historical adventure film that evokes the figure of the Prince Dimitrie Cantemir. The heroes fight for the manuscript "The History of the Ottoman...

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  • 1977
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    Full Sail

    Full Sail

    9.2 1977 HD

    Full Sail is a TV series aired on Romanian National Television (TVR), based on the eponymous novel by Radu Tudoran. The series follow the adventures...

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